Joint bias and target state estimation based on Doppler sensors.

Target state estimation with Doppler-only sensors has attracted a lot of attention due to its wide potential applications in target localization and tracking. While existing Doppler-only tracking methods rely on the assumption that Doppler sensors have been correctly registered, in many practical cases there can be significant registration errors which imply measurement biases and thus performance degradation in target state estimation. Motivated by this issue, the present paper addresses the problem of jointly estimating target state and sensor biases based on Doppler-only measurements. The proposed method consists of two phases, i.e., (1) raw estimation of the target state without considering sensor biases, followed by (2) a bias compensation step that relies on linearization of the measurement function and joint estimation of target state-sensor biases via a least square method. The Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) in estimating sensor biases is evaluated and the performance of the proposed method is also assessed via simulations.